Source to Mouth
Published on 1. December 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
60 pages
978-1-934832-39-4 (ISBN)
Description
A finalist for the 2012 NMP/DIAGRAM Chapbook Competition, Brandon Krieg's SOURCE TO MOUTH is a rangy collection of poems. Reading Emerson and Hopkins, "seven hundred salmon flashes in an hour," "mussels cluster[ing] on black rocks like magnetic shavings," considering the Romans and Etruscans, pointillist dandelions, "white windmills, futurist / crosses," "diminished sixths from the blanching chips / of a mouse's skull," gneiss, and coal and and and... How can we incorporate all these things into a semblance of a self, the lead poem, "I, Inc." asks us. Comprehensive and comprehending, incorporating everything it can find or read or see, Krieg's vision and voice is expansive, an experience.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
76 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-934832-39-4 (9781934832394)
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BRANDON KRIEG is the author of Magnifier, winner of the 2019 Colorado Prize for Poetry. His other poetry collections are In the Gorge (2017), Invasives (2014), and a chapbook, Source to Mouth (2012). Two of his collections were finalists for the ASLE Book Award in Environmental Creative Writing and his work will be featured in Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology, forthcoming from Trinity University Press. He grew up in Tualatin, OR, and now lives with his family in Kutztown, PA, where he teaches at Kutztown University.